Judge Dredd Megazine #476: Meg 476

Welcome to 2025, Citizens, and we start the New Year with a new addition to the line-up – John Wagner, Alan Grant and Dan Cornwell’s sci-fi football thriller Rok of the Reds. We’ll be publishing this and its sequel Rok the God over the next twelve months before commencing with the brand-new series Rok the World, and we kick off this first chapter accompanied by an introductory chat with Wagner and Cornwell.

Elsewhere, there’s a complete Dredd story from Ian Edginton and Nicolo Assirelli alongside the latest instalments of Devlin Waugh, Lawless, Death Cap, Fargo & McBane, Cadet Rico and Riley’s Rebels.

This year also sees the Meg celebrating its milestone thirty-fifth anniversary – yes, unbelievably, it’s been three and a half decades since Judge Dredd The Megazine (as it was then known) hit newsagents’ shelves in October 1990. To mark the occasion, each issue Scott Montgomery will be charting the stories that appeared over the years in The Meg Files, starting with 1990-1992, as this long-awaited Dredd-centric title made its debut with instant classics like America, Young Death and more.

Be here for the birthday, creeps!

JUDGE DREDD // FOOD CHAIN

Mega-City One, 2146 AD. This vast urban hell on the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America is home to over 200 million citizens, bordered by the irradiated Cursed Earth to the west and the toxic Black Atlantic to the east. Tensions run a knife-edge and crime is rampant. Stemming the tide of chaos are the Judges. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd – he is the Law!

DEATH CAP // FRONTIER JUSTICE, Part Four

The Cursed Earth, 2144 AD. This blasted, irradiated wilderness covers much of what’s left of post-apocalyptic twenty-second century North America. Here, mutants scratch out a meagre existence in ramshackle townships. Former Judge Anita Goya’s family were massacred, and she became infected with a virulent fungus. Now she’s being hunted by Justice Dept…

FARGO & MCBANE // NEW YORK’S FINEST, Part Four

New York City, the 1970s. Detective Jack McBane was one of the toughest cops to patrol the metropolis, having no compunction in handing out summary justice upon criminals. Although his ruthless attitude wins him few friends, he has one in Officer Eartha Fargo, who worked with him in NYC before moving out to Jaxville with her family. Now they’ve reunited…

DEVLIN WAUGH // TWO MONTHS OFF, Part Four

Brit-Cit, 2146 AD. A freelance paranormal troubleshooter and exorcist for the Vatican, Devlin Waugh is the world’s foremost supernatural investigator. Despite becoming a vampire after getting bitten tackling an outbreak in an underwater prison, Devlin continues to enjoy the finer things in life. Now, he’s on holiday with three friends, but things have turned weird…

ROK OF THE REDS // Chapter One

Dangerous intergalactic outlaws and an arrogant footballer collide, on the run after his home world is destroyed, Rok of Arkadi needs a hiding place. And that hiding place happens to be troubled football star Kyle Dixon. A black comedy about revenge, redemption and the ‘beautiful game’.

RILEY’S REBELS // Part Three

The Cursed Earth: an irradiated wasteland covering much of what was once the United States. Inhabited today by mutants, exiles… and lost children. Now, Riley wanders this wilderness, looking for something important…

CADET RICO // THE CYCLE, Part Four

From the moment he was cloned, Rico has been bred for Justice. Enrolled into the Academy as a child, he and his brother Joe are learning the hard way that it isn’t easy to be the Law in Mega-City One…

LAWLESS // A TOWN CALLED BADROCK, Part Four

Colonial Marshal Metta Lawson was appointed to the frontier township of Badrock on the planet 43 Rega, intent on stamping her authority on the colony. But in doing so, Lawson made many enemies, including Munce, Inc., the mega-corporation that funded Badrock. Now, with the SJS also running things, Lawson’s recently returned to the force after going undercover…